Avneesh Sharma

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Avneesh Sharma.

Avneesh Sharma

I'm a software engineer in Seattle with 12+ years of experience building production systems. I work at the intersection of software engineering and AI/ML, with a particular interest in what happens after a prototype is ready: reliability, evaluation, observability, cost, and long-term ownership.

I currently work at Amazon. Outside work, I write Build Tech Career , a newsletter for experienced software engineers who want to move closer to real AI/ML systems work.

Experience

2019–PresentSeattle, USA

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Ads AI Platform

At Amazon Ads, I lead the architecture of AI and ML platforms that turn fragmented business data into reliable context for recommendations. This work spans many services and partner teams, and supports millions of advertisers and campaigns.

Earlier, I helped establish reusable MLOps foundations supporting more than 100 production models, shortening model launches from roughly a week to a day. I also led graph-based fraud detection work operating across millions of entities and preventing multimillion-dollar losses each month.

Mar–May 2019Buffalo, USA

Willow Inc.

Co-founder · Elder-care health startup

As co-founder, I took an elder-care facility management product from idea to a working MVP in four weeks, then recruited and led a three-engineer team through its next stage of development. I helped shape the product direction and investor narrative, enabling the company to secure early funding .

2015–2018Bangalore, India

SAP Ariba

Software Engineer

I built cloud procurement and supplier-negotiation capabilities for an enterprise SaaS platform used by thousands of buyers. The work combined deep domain modeling with product development at scale and led to a U.S. patent for automating complex service-procurement workflows.

2012–2015Bangalore, India

Verifone

Software Engineering Specialist

I built payment-critical software for point-of-sale devices, where reliability, recovery, and latency directly shaped the customer experience. Improvements across core payment flows reduced average transaction time by about 60%.

2010–2012Bangalore, India

Yodlee

Software Engineer

I built APIs and data-aggregation services for a personal-finance platform that integrated with multiple financial institutions, establishing an early foundation in dependable systems for sensitive financial data.

Education

2019Buffalo, NY

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

M.S., Management Information Systems · 3.8 GPA

2010Uttar Pradesh, India

Uttar Pradesh Technical University

B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering · First Division

Skills

AI systems
LLMs, agentic AI, prompt engineering, RAG, evals, MLOps
Languages
Python, Java, TypeScript, Kotlin
AWS
SageMaker, Step Functions, Glue, EMR, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Neptune, IAM, Airflow
Systems
Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, microservices, streaming pipelines

Academic and Professional Achievements

Issued U.S. PatentSee more

Splitting a task hierarchy

U.S. Patent 11,257,035 B2 · Issued February 22, 2022

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Memberships at Prestigious InstitutionsSee more

Computer Society of India

Student member from August 2006 to March 2010. Organized technical competitions, including LAMP website administration and inter-college programming events, and placed second in a technical competition in 2008.

Online ArticlesSee more
Mentoring and VolunteeringSee more

Headstart Network Foundation

Volunteered with Headstart's entrepreneur community, contributing to initiatives that connect and support startup founders across India.

Engineering knowledge-sharing

Through Build Tech Career, public technical writing, and engineering leadership, I help experienced software engineers understand production AI/ML systems and apply their existing systems judgment to the field.

Contact

I'm always glad to meet people working on production AI systems, dependable software, and better paths for experienced engineers entering the field.